As a contributor to a number of projects on CodePlex I really like the fact that the discussions feature exists but also I need ways to help me sort the discussions threads so I can make sure no-one is getting forgotten about. Seems like a lot of you agreed as the feature request Provide feature to allow...

Just a quick post to let you know that we recently added support for linking issues to commits in CodePlex using the same #1234 syntax being used in TFS 2013. Basically, if you insert a ‘#’ symbol followed by an integer in your commit statement, changeset comment or pull request comments then this will...

As I mentioned a month ago , we have been working on improving the overall experience for the CodePlex community. Today, I am happy to announce the release of CodePlex’s new look! Our goal was to refresh the look and feel of the site to a modern Metro-inspired theme.
This is the first step in...

We have been pretty busy working on a new UI for CodePlex, I will have a preview post coming shortly . Here are the notes from today’s release: Updated source code tab to show Author and Committer for Git (Thanks to Brad Wilson for reporting) Fixed issue where pagination did not work correctly in topic...

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We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website yesterday.
Redesigned Home Page with Activity Stream
In CodePlex we continuously look for ways to provide our users with the most recent and relevant information they are seeking...

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AppHarbor
In CodePlex, we continue to look for ways to enhance our project hosting offering by partnering with other companies and their services. AppHarbor is a platform...

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Pull Request Listing
We now provide the ability to view a history of all of the pull requests that have been sent by project members. You can filter those requests...

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Pull Request Diff Notes
In a continuation of the pull request conversations feature that we added in our March release, we’ve added the ability to add notes to...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @adacole_msft ] We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website today. Pull Request Conversations Previously, the only way for project members and users who submitted pull requests to converse was via e-mail. This complicated the review process and...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @adacole_msft ] We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website today. Pull Request Changes In this release, we have begun to re-focus on Pull Requests to ensure a productive experience between the project users and developers. We feel we made significant...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @adacole_msft ] We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website last week. Profile Picture Thumbnails We have added a way to select a thumbnail from your profile picture, which will start appearing next to usernames across the site. Managing...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @adacole_msft ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software yesterday. Keyboard Shortcuts With this release, we have added a set of keyboard shortcuts for common tasks in the Issue Tracker. This feature is a popular request in the...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @adacole_msft ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software last week. But, before we get into the new functionality… Welcome our new Program Manager, Ada Cole Hello, CodePlex users! My name is Ada Cole, and I’m excited to be the Program...

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We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software yesterday.
Windows Live Writer Support
With this release, we have implemented our #1 project feature request, Updating Wiki Pages with Windows Live Writer! Following up on our prior release...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. WYSIWYG Wiki Editor With this release, we have enabled the ability for project members to edit their wiki pages in either the Wiki Markup or with a WYSIWYG Html editor. When you create or...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Support for ClickOnce Releases With today’s release, we are happy to announce that our #1 most requested feature, hosting ClickOnce applications directly from the CodePlex website , is now...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Project Openings Enhancements With today’s release, CodePlex users now have the ability to search for project openings across all projects. Prior to today’s release, a user looking to contribute...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Multiple Project Downloads With today’s release, CodePlex users now have the ability to set multiple default releases for their project. The primary usage for this feature is for projects...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Application Analytics With today’s release, CodePlex users now have the ability to instrument their applications to get analytics on their runtime usage. CodePlex has long offered reports...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Upgraded to .NET 4 While normally we wouldn’t mention an infrastructure upgrade, we decided that with the recent launch of .NET 4, our more technical audience wouldn’t mind knowing that we...

[Do you Tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Windows Live™ ID Support The #2 requested feature for CodePlex has been to support logging in using your Windows Live™ ID account. We’re happy to say, that with this release this is now possible...

[Do you Tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of CodePlex software today. This release changes how the Patches feature works for Mercurial based projects by replacing it with Forks. A Fork is a branch of the project repository stored on our servers where you can make...

[Do you Tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Associating Change sets to Releases When you’re editing your release information, you’ll notice a new textbox in the Release Details section that will allow you to add a Change set number...

What is Mercurial? Mercurial is a distributed source control management system. For new projects created on CodePlex.com, you will be able to choose from either Team Foundation Server or Mercurial as your source control repository . To illustrate, in the Create a Project wizard you’ll see the following...

Last Friday, we deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software. Project Job Openings Project owners can now post “job openings” for what sort of help they are looking for. This feature allows people who are interested in joining a project a way to contact the team directly. The Project Owner can...